Project Highlights

2010

Software

• Meshmixer v.2.0 released for download (http://www.meshmixer.com).
• Code to compute a large number of mesh shape features used in paper #94 . The code uses Trimesh2 and LAPACK and is part of a larger project, thus, it cannot be compiled as it is. The implementation is also not that optimized ShapeFeaturesCode.zip, 17KB.
• Labeled mesh segmentation benchmark used in paper # . The meshes and segmentations come from the Princeton segmentation benchmark. labeledDb.7z, 63.8MB.
• Spectral correspondence & EVD
• Point cloud skeletonization (SMI'10)
• Feature-aligned shape texturing (SIGA'09)
• Point consolidation (SIGA'09)

Awards

• Andrea Tagliasacchi wins MITACS Annual Student Award for Best Paper, 2010.

• Tiberiu Popa wine Alain Fournier PhD dissertation award 2010.

• Best Paper Awards:

  • [paper #79] ACM/EG Sketch-based interfaces and modeling SBIM09.

Organization

• Alla Sheffer co-chairs SIGGRAPH Asia talks 2011.

2009

Software

• 100 concept models created by sketching with ILoveSketch for 4.5 days at Emerging Technology, SIGGRAPH 2009  (New Orleans, LA, USA, August 3-7).
• Paper and demo presentation of EverybodyLovesSketch at UIST 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 4-7).
• Meshmixer released for download (http://www.meshmixer.com).
• Robust normal, curvature and its derivatives executable. 
• MATLAB code for robust spectral shape correspondence available. Please download this ZIP file. 

Awards

• Ramsey Dyer wins MITACS Annual Student Award for Best Paper, 2009.

• Karan Singh wins MITACS mentorship award 2009.

• Best Paper Awards:

  • [paper #] ACM/EG Sketch-based interfaces and modeling SBIM08.

Organization

• Hao Zhang is a co-organizer and speaker: Spectral Mesh Processing, SIGGRAPH Asia course #32, 2009.

2008

Software

• Sketching system for conceptual free-form 3D industrial design ILoveSketch featured on slashdot, several product design forums (design sojourn, drawn).
• Shapeshop update released for download (http://www.shapeshop3d.com).

Awards

• Ryan Schmidt wins MITACS Annual Student Award for Best Use of Technology Transfer, 2008.

• Richard Zhang wins MITACS internship award of excellence with Brightside Technologies, 2008.

• Karan Singh and Ravin Balakrishnan awarded NSERC I2I phase II grants to form Sketch2 Inc. along with architect Colin Graham.

• Best Paper Awards:

  • [paper #61] ACM/EG Symposium on Geometry Processing SGP08.

  • [paper #50] ACM/EG Sketch-based interfaces and modeling SBIM08.

  • [paper #41] ACM/EG Symposium on computer animation SCA07.

Organization

• Alla Sheffer is a co-organizer and speaker: Mesh Parameterization: Theory and Practice, K. Hormann, A. Sheffer,  K. Polthier, half-day course, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.

• Alla Sheffer coorganizes a BIRS workshop on Computational Mathematics of Discrete Surfaces in February 2009.

• Karan Singh chairs Eurographics symposium on Sketch based interactive modeling 2008. 

2007

• Mesh Parameterization: Theory and Practice, A. Sheffer, K. Hormann, B. Levy, M. Desbrun, K. Zhou, Full-day course, SIGGRAPH 2007.
• Michiel van de Panne: Program co-chair Eurographics symposium on Sketch based interactive modeling 2007.
• Shapeshop update released for download (http://www.shapeshop3d.com).

2006

• Alla Sheffer is awarded IBM Faculty award 2006 for Segmentation and Surface Fitting for Digital Shape Reconstruction.
• Ravin Balakrishnan is awarded Canada Research Chair in Human Computer Interaction, 2006.
• Alla Sheffer: IEEE Shape Modeling International, June 2006, invited plenary speaker.
• Alla Sheffer: Program co-chair, Symposium on Geometry processing 2006.
• Alla Sheffer: Guest editor for Computer Graphics Forum special topic on geometry processing.
• Karan Singh co-organized full day course in Interactive Shape Editing at SIGGRAPH 2006.
• Karan Singh and Ravin Balakrishnan awarded NSERC I2I phase I and II to form Sketch2 Inc. along with architect Colin Graham.

2005 and prior

• Patrick Coleman is awarded ATI graduate fellowship 2005.
• Summer school on Interactive shape modeling in Darmstadt 2005 (Karan Singh).
• Eurographics 2005 tutorial  on Interactive shape modeling (Karan Singh).
• A new geometric curve primitive called a Cord was used extensively in the Academy Award winning film Ryan by the National Film Board of Canada (2004).
• Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, and Ravin Balakrishnan received the Best Paper award at the ACM UIST 2004 conference for their paper Multi-finger gestural interaction with 3-D volumetric displays.